After more than 20 years of service, ASID Executive Director Michael Alin, Hon. FASID will retire on October 1st. In planning for the next phase of leadership for ASID, the Society has created the Executive Leadership Taskforce to develop and manage a process to identify and recruit ASID’s next Executive Leader. The process includes significant outreach out to all ASID stakeholder groups for their insights about the future of our profession and ASID.
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What do you see as the most significant drivers of change within the interior design profession in the next 10 years?
What are the most important things that ASID can do to help you thrive over the next 10 years?
How should ASID deliver services, build community and support members differently in the next 10 years?
How do you foresee your client’s needs changing over the next 10 years?
Looking forward to the next 10 years, what do you believe will be the most significant changes that ASID, as a national or local organization, must undergo to remain the leading interior design organization?
If you haven’t had a chance to share your insights about the future of ASID and the interior design profession, submit your answers and provide additional insights by July 13, 2011 by visiting the ASID Join the Conversation survey.
The nine-member taskforce will provide oversight, including a process to reach out to ASID stakeholder groups for feedback, developing leadership criteria and a job description for the position.
This endeavor will require a thoughtful and thorough process, one that will require the taskforce to look to the future of the design profession, ensuring that ASID remains the lead organization for the profession and continues to be the definitive resource for our members. The work of the taskforce will both inform the search for executive leadership and guide us in the framing of our next three-year strategic planning process.
Background and Updates
The Executive Leadership Taskforce began the first phase of the process of reaching out to ASID stakeholders during the 2011 Chapter Leadership Conference and NeoCon through conversations with the national board of directors, chapter leaders, Fellows and emerging leaders. We were able to document more than 300 individual conversations regarding views of the profession and how ASID can support all of our diverse stakeholders.
The Executive Leadership Taskforce has scheduled a two-day workshop on July 18th and 19th to collect and analyze stakeholder insights and industry research to help form a “future view of the profession and ASID” and define the criteria for executive leadership.
While it is too early to report any specific comments, it has been rewarding to see the heartfelt interest and sincere desire of our stakeholders to participate in this process. The taskforce will be issuing a report of its work at the beginning of August.
Thanks for your support and interest…keep the conversation going.
Executive Leadership Taskforce
Members of the Executive Leadership Taskforce include Michael Thomas, FASID, National President, Sari Graven, FASID, immediate Past President, Lisa Henry, FASID, President-Elect, Barb Marini, FASID, Judy Picket, FASID, Robert Wright, FASID, Charrisse Johnston, ASID, Lynn
Lorch Metz, ASID and Kirstin Hellwig, ASID Associate Executive Director.
To assist with this work, ASID has engaged the Greenway Group, one of the country’s leading strategy consulting firms for the interior design, architecture and construction professions. Greenway’s principals, Jim Cramer and Doug Parker, Hon. FASID, will play a significant role facilitating this process by listening, learning, documenting, and analyzing feedback.